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n. - Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; Formality in bearing and appearance.

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Usage examples (39)
  • Adjective : lordly contempt. ,lordly manners
  • But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.
  • But there is often a lordliness about it which some, such as I, may find redeems it.
  • "Oh, I've seen to that," said Christopher with the faintest suspicion of lordliness in his voice.
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